Title:   “The Wiz” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Label:   MCA  # MCA2-1400.  Stereo pressing.   

Year:  1978.

Condition: 

Album is STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Shrink wrap is sparkling clean and tight.  Corners are lightly bumped.  There is a small jigsaw cut on top seam at upper right, otherwise flawless.

Overall a stunningly beautiful copy of this epic soundtrack.

Track Listings:

Main Title (Overture, Part I) Overture (Part II) The Feeling That We Have Con’t Go On? Glinda’s Theme He’s The Wizard Soon As I Get Home / Home You Can’t Win Ease On Down The Road What Would I Do If I Could Feel? Slide Some Iol To Me (I’m A) Mean Ole Lion Poppy Girls Be A Lion End Of The Yellow Brick Road Emerald City Sequence So You Wanted To See The Wizard Is This What Feeling Gets? (Dorothy’s Theme) Don’t Nobody Bring No Bad News A Brand New Day (Everybody Rejoice) / Liberation Ballet Believe In Yourself Home

Review:

“Director Sidney Lumet's big-budget film version of The Wiz, an updated musical treatment of The Wizard of Oz with songs by Charlie Smalls, is not remembered as one of the great movie musicals.  But you wouldn't know that from this elaborate double-LP soundtrack album, on which Smalls' Broadway score is augmented by music written by producer Quincy Jones, Nickolas Ashford & Velerie Simpson, and Luther Vandross.  Jones organized a studio band of New York jazz veterans, including Toots Thielmans, Eric Gale, Michael Brecker, and Richard Tee, and of course the cast provides spectacular vocal firepower in the persons of Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.  The result was a Top 40, gold-selling album paced by a Top 40 single of "Ease on Down the Road" by Ross and Jackson (outperforming the 1975 version by Consumer Rapport), as well as the chart single "You Can't Win," by Jackson.  Much comparison was made between the vocal (not to mention the facial) resemblance between Ross and Jackson; here's the only place to hear them together.”

(courtesy William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com.) 

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